Dual burner grill

ABSTRACT

A dual burner grill for cookers or foods on a tabletop includes first and second burner props including first and second top-open receptacles respectively, first and second burners fitted into the first and second top-open receptacles of the first burner prop respectively, and a burner selector for selecting the first or second burner to operate. The first burner prop surrounds the second burner prop. The first burner prop is adapted to support the cookers. The first top-open receptacle includes a groove of the shape of the first burner. The second burner prop is adapted to support the cookers. The second top-open receptacle includes a groove of the shape of the second burner. The first burner includes a gas burner, and the gas burner includes a pipe and holes along the pipe. The second burner includes a gas burner, and the gas burner includes a pipe and holes along the pipe.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a dual burner grill. More particularly,this invention relates to a dual burner grill that has two burners inone case.

Usually the different types of dish or food material require appropriategrills. A tough and wide grill is needed to barbeque a big chunk orslice of meat while a light and small one is enough to cook somemushroom. Also, in order to working on a large cauldron, we need largeburner, and small one for a tiny pot.

A kitchen crowded with many equipments, food materials, cookers, andeven cooks is not a good place to waste any surface for extra grill.Grills strewn all over the places of the kitchen are dangerous, too.Still, the cooks need many kinds and sizes of fiery surfaces to cook on.

Is there any way to harmonize the two colliding requirements of theabove?

The present invention is to provide a solution to that problem.

Accordingly, a need for a dual burner grill has been present for a longtime considering the necessity of them in our everyday life. Thisinvention is directed to solve these problems and satisfy the long-feltneed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention contrives to solve the disadvantages of the priorart.

An object of the invention is to provide a dual burner grill.

Another object of the invention is to provide a dual burner grill whichaccommodates two different shapes of burners.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a dual burner grillwhich is convenient to discard the waste oil.

A dual burner grill for cookers or foods on a tabletop includes a firstburner prop including a first top-open receptacle, a second burner propincluding a second top-open receptacle, a first burner fitted into thefirst top-open receptacle of the first burner prop, and a second burnerfitted into the second top-open receptacle of the second burner prop.The first burner prop surrounds the second burner prop.

The first burner prop is adapted to support the cookers. The firsttop-open receptacle includes a groove of the shape of the first burner.

The second burner prop is adapted to support the cookers. The secondtop-open receptacle includes a groove of the shape of the second burner.

The first burner includes a gas burner, and the gas burner includes apipe, holes along the pipe, and a connecting part. The second burnerincludes a gas burner, and the gas burner includes a pipe, holes alongthe pipe, and a connecting part.

The first burner prop and the second burner prop are disposed below theplane defined by the tabletop.

The first burner is rectangular, and the second burner is circular.

The dual burner grill further includes a first grill top over the firstburner prop, a second grill top over the second burner prop, a lid forcovering the first and second burners, and a waste oil sump below thefirst and second burner prop.

The first grill top is detachable. The first grill top includes a gridof holes. The first grill top is made of metal. The metal includes castiron. The second grill top is detachable. The second grill top includesa tripod.

The waste oil sump is extractable from under the first and second burnerprop.

The first and second grill tops are made of cast aluminum. The firstgrill top is adapted to support the cookers or food.

The dual burner grill further includes a case, and one or more main gaspipes. The case encloses the first and second burners, the first andsecond burner props, the first and second grill tops, and the waste oilsump. The case includes a front plate, a rear plate, two side plates,and a bottom plate. The main gas pipes provides fuel gas to the burners.

The case is covered on the top by the first grill top.

The front, rear, side plates of the case include a grid of holes. Eachof the grid of holes has a shape of rectangle, and the size of therectangle is approximately three (3) to five (5) by a quarter (0.25) tothree quarters (0.75) inches.

The waste oil sump is inserted into a hole, from the front side of thecase, provided on the bottom plate of the case. The length of the wasteoil sump along the front plate is approximately from fourteen (14) tosixteen (16) inches. The width of the waste oil sump along the sideplate is approximately from ten (10) to twelve (12) inches. The heightof the waste oil sump is approximately a half (0.5) to one (1) inches.The waste oil sump includes a handle.

The side plate includes one or two holes for the main gas pipes thatlead to the first and second burners. The size of the holes isapproximately a half (0.5) to one point five (1.5) inches in diameter.The case further includes a pipe support plate for supporting the maingas pipes, and the pipe support plate is placed inside the case.

The first burner prop and the second burner prop are integrated intoone.

The case includes a top flange along the top of the plates. The flangeis bent downward by approximately five (5) to fifteen (15) degrees.

The dual burner grill further includes a burner selector for selectingthe first or second burner to operate.

The burner selector includes a first valve to the first burner and asecond valve to the second burner, and the first valve and the secondvalve are separate.

The dual burner grill further includes a separate lid for covering theburner selector. The burner selector is disposed in the vicinity of thefirst grill top.

The advantages of the present invention are: (1) the dual burner grillis convenient to choose and use one out of two different type ofburners; (2) the dual burner grill is easy to discard the waste oil dueto the front loading of the waste oil sump; and (3) the dual burnergrill enables to dispose two burners in one case by using the spaceefficiently.

Although the present invention is briefly summarized, the fullerunderstanding of the invention can be obtained by the followingdrawings, detailed description and appended claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features, aspects and advantages of the presentinvention will become better understood with reference to theaccompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a dual burner grill according to thepresent invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view along II-II of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of first and second burner props of the dualburner grill according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a first grill top;

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a tripod of a second grill top;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a first burner;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a second burner;

FIG. 8 is a top plan view of a dual burner grill with the first grilltop in place;

FIG. 9 is a front view of a case of the dual burner grill;

FIG. 10. is a perspective view of a waste oil sump;

FIG. 11 is a plan view of a pipe support plate;

FIG. 12 is a first side view of the case;

FIG. 13 is a second side view of the case;

FIG. 14 is a perspective view of a lid of the first grill top; and

FIG. 15 is a plan view of the dual burner grill with lids closed.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a dual burner grill 100 according tothe present invention.

The dual burner grill 100 for cookers or foods on a tabletop includes afirst burner prop 10 including a first top-open receptacle 11, a secondburner prop 20 including a second top-open receptacle 21, a first burner12 (refer to FIG. 6) fitted into the first top-open receptacle 11 of thefirst burner prop 10, and a second burner 22 (refer to FIG. 7) fittedinto the second top-open receptacle 21 of the second burner prop 20. Thefirst burner prop 10 surrounds the second burner prop 20 as shown inFIG. 1 and FIG. 3.

The first burner prop 10 is adapted to support the cookers. The firsttop-open receptacle 11 includes a groove 13 of the shape of the firstburner 12.

The second burner prop 20 is adapted to support the cookers. The secondtop-open receptacle 21 includes a groove 23 of the shape of the secondburner 22.

The first burner 12 includes a gas burner, and the gas burner includes apipe 14, holes 15 along the pipe 14, and a connecting part 16 as shownFIG. 6. The second burner 22 includes a gas burner, and the gas burnerincludes a pipe 24, holes 25 along the pipe 24, and a connecting part 26as shown in FIG. 7.

The first burner prop 10 and the second burner prop 20 are disposedbelow the plane defined by the tabletop.

The first burner 12 is substantially rectangular, and the second burner22 is substantially circular.

The dual burner grill 100 further includes a first grill top 17 over thefirst burner prop 10, a second grill top 27 over the second burner prop20, a lid 30 for covering the first and second burners 12, 22, and awaste oil sump 32 below the first and second burner prop 10, 20 as shownin FIGS. 3, 8-10, 14, and 15.

The first grill top 17 is detachable. The first grill top 17 includes agrid of holes 91. The first grill top 17 is made of metal. The metalincludes cast iron. The second grill top 27 is detachable. The secondgrill top 27 includes a tripod 33 as shown in FIG. 5.

The waste oil sump 32 is extractable from under the first and secondburner props 10, 20 as shown in FIG. 9 and FIG. 10.

The first and second grill tops 17, 27 are made of cast aluminum. Thefirst grill top 17 is adapted to support the cookers or food.

The dual burner grill 100 further includes a case 34, and one or moremain gas pipes 36 as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. The case 34 enclosesthe first and second burners 12, 22, the first and second burner props10, 20, the first and second grill tops 17, 27, and the waste oil sump32. The case 34 includes a front plate 41, a rear plate 42, two sideplates 43, 43′, and a bottom plate 44 as shown in FIGS. 1, 9, 12, and13. The main gas pipes 36 provide fuel gas to the burners 12, 22 asshown in FIG. 1.

The case 34 is covered on the top by the first grill top 17 as shown inFIG. 8.

The front, rear, side plates 41, 42, 43 of the case 34 comprise a gridof holes 92. Each of the grid of holes 92 has a shape of rectangle, andthe size of the rectangle is approximately three (3) to five (5) by aquarter (0.25) to three quarters (0.75) inches.

The waste oil sump 32 is inserted into a hole 45, from the front side 41of the case 34, provided over the bottom plate 44 of the case 34 asshown in FIG. 9. The length of the waste oil sump 32 along the frontplate is approximately from fourteen (14) to sixteen (16) inches. Thewidth of the waste oil sump 32 along the side plate is approximatelyfrom ten (10) to twelve (12) inches. The height of the waste oil sump 32is approximately a half (0.5) to one (1) inches. The waste oil sump 32includes a handle 35.

The side plate 43 of the case 34 includes one or two holes 49 for themain gas pipes 36 that lead to the first and second burners 12, 22 asshown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 12. The size of the holes 49 depends on thesize of the main gas pipes 36 and is approximately a half (0.5) to onepoint five (1.5) inches in diameter. The case 34 further includes a pipesupport plate 38 for supporting the main gas pipes 36, and the pipesupport plate 38 is placed inside the case 34 as shown in FIG. 2. Thepipe support plate 38 includes one or more holes 39 for the main gaspipes 36 as shown in FIG. 11.

The first burner prop 10 and the second burner prop 20 may be integratedinto one as shown in FIG. 3. The case 34 includes a top flange 50 alongthe top of the plates 41, 42 as shown in FIGS. 9 and 11-13. The flange50 is bent downward by approximately five (5) to fifteen (15) degreesand approximately two eighth ( 2/8) to four eighth ( 4/8) inches wide.

The dual burner grill 100 further includes a burner selector 29 forselecting the first or second burner 12, 22 to operate.

The burner selector 29 includes a first valve 18 to the first burner 12and a second valve 28 to the second burner 22, and the first valve 18and the second valve 28 are separate as shown in FIG. 2.

The dual burner grill 100 further includes a separate lid 31 forcovering the burner selector 29 as shown in FIG. 15. The burner selector29 is disposed in the vicinity of the first grill top 17.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference todifferent embodiments thereof, it will be appreciated by those skilledin the art that variations in form, detail, compositions and operationmay be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventionas defined by the accompanying claims.

1. A dual burner grill for cookers or foods on a tabletop comprising: a)a first burner prop comprising a first top-open receptacle; b) a secondburner prop comprising a second top-open receptacle; c) a first burnerfitted into the first top-open receptacle of the first burner prop; andd) a second burner fitted into the second top-open receptacle of thesecond burner prop, wherein the first burner prop surrounds the secondburner prop.
 2. The dual burner grill of claim 1, wherein the firsttop-open receptacle comprises a groove of the shape of the first burner,wherein the second top-open receptacle comprises a groove of the shapeof the second burner.
 3. The dual burner grill of claim 1, wherein thefirst burner comprises a gas burner, wherein the gas burner comprises apipe, holes along the pipe, and a connecting part, wherein the secondburner comprises a gas burner, wherein the gas burner comprises a pipe,holes along the pipe, and a connecting part.
 4. The dual burner grill ofclaim 1, wherein the first burner prop and the second burner prop aredisposed below the plane defined by the tabletop.
 5. The dual burnergrill of claim 1, wherein the first burner is rectangular, wherein thesecond burner is circular.
 6. The dual burner grill of claim 1, furthercomprising: a) a first grill top over the first burner prop; b) a secondgrill top over the second burner prop; c) a lid for covering the firstand second burners; and d) a waste oil sump below the first and secondburner prop.
 7. The dual burner grill of claim 6, wherein the first andsecond grill tops are detachable, wherein the first grill tops comprisesa grid of holes, wherein the second grill top comprises a tripod,wherein the first and second grill tops are made of metal, wherein themetal comprises cast iron and cast aluminum.
 8. The dual burner grill ofclaim 7, wherein the waste oil sump is extractable from under the firstand second burner prop.
 9. The dual burner grill of claim 7, wherein thefirst grill top is adapted to support the cookers or food.
 10. The dualburner grill of claim 7, further comprising a) a case for enclosing thefirst and second burners, the first and second burner props, the firstand second grill tops, and the waste oil sump, wherein the casecomprises a front plate, a rear plate, two side plates, and a bottomplate; and b) one or more main gas pipes through the side plate forproviding fuel gas to the burners.
 11. The dual burner grill of claim10, wherein the case is covered on the top by the first grill top,wherein the front, rear, side plates of the case comprise a grid ofholes, wherein each of the grid of holes has a shape of rectangle,wherein the size of the rectangle is approximately three (3) to five (5)by a quarter (0.25) to three quarters (0.75) inches.
 12. The dual burnergrill of claim 10, wherein the waste oil sump is inserted into a hole,from the front side of the case, provided on the bottom plate of thecase, wherein the length of the waste oil sump along the front plate isapproximately from fourteen (14) to sixteen (16) inches, wherein thewidth of the waste oil sump along the side plate is approximately fromten (10) to twelve (12) inches, wherein the height of the waste oil sumpis approximately a half (0.5) to one (1) inches.
 13. The dual burnergrill of claim 12, wherein the waste oil sump comprises a handle. 14.The dual burner grill of claim 10, wherein the side plate comprises oneor two holes for the main gas pipes that lead to the first and secondburners, wherein the size of the holes is approximately a half (0.5) toone point five (1.5) inches in diameter, wherein the case furthercomprises a pipe support plate for supporting the main gas pipes,wherein the pipe support plate is placed inside the case, wherein thepipe support plate comprises one or more holes for the main gas pipes.15. The dual burner grill of claim 10, wherein the case comprises a topflange along the top of the plates, wherein the flange is bent downwardby approximately five (5) to fifteen (15) degrees.
 16. The dual burnergrill of claim 10, wherein the length of the front plate isapproximately twenty (20) to twenty three (23) inches, wherein theheight of the front plate of the case is approximately eight (8) to ten(10) inches.
 17. The dual burner grill of claim 1, wherein the firstburner prop and the second burner prop are integrated into one.
 18. Thedual burner grill of claim 1, further comprising a burner selector forselecting the first or second burner to operate.
 19. The dual burnergrill of claim 18, wherein the burner selector comprises a first valveto the first burner and a second valve to the second burner, wherein thefirst valve and the second valve are separate.
 20. The dual burner grillof claim 18, further comprising a separate lid for covering the burnerselector, wherein the burner selector is disposed in the vicinity of thefirst grill top.